Lewis D. Eigen Quotes
I was important enough to be taken seriously but unimportant enough to be sacrificed for the greater good. Most spear catcher roles are not quite so dramatic, but typically, your job will not be at risk; just your pride, ego and self‐respect.
At the beginning of the Job Corps, a number of academics and urban political figures were very critical of taking young men from the cities and brining them to rural centers in National Parks and Forests for basic education and work training. It was decided that instead of Sargent Shriver the Head of the Anti Poverty Program or Otis Singletary, the Jobe Corps Director, Eigen would give a major presentation at an academic conference ammouncing the scale and scope of the planned program. If the objection was too great, Singletary and Shriver could say that Eigen was just proposing his ideas that were under consideration but they had not reached a decision and Eigen did not prepresent the views of the administration. Fortunately he handled the critics well and was persuasive enough to oftain the support of many of the Conference attendees, and the Newspaper accounts were very favorible, so what Eigen said was the official policy and design of the Job Corps program which, with Head Start, were the only two programs for the War on Poverty that still opperated 60 years thereafter. Eigen told this story in a Primer he wrote for new Federal appointees who most often have little or no understanding of the operations of the Federal Government.
Lewis D. Eigen. The Obama Political Appointee Primer, 2008
Sourced by: Eigen's Political and Historical Quotations
Franklin Delano Roosevelt used the phrase in his Third Inaugural Address {32529}. But the earliest expression that we have found is the Mexican leader Emiliano Zapata {46999} Franklin Delano Roosevelt later used the phrase in his Third Inaugural Address {32529}. But the earliest expression that we have found is the Mexican leader Emiliano Zapata {46999}. This was one of the great quotations to come out of the Spanish Revolution. It inspired freedom loving people the world over, then and through this day.
Battle was the grandson of a Revolutionary war soldier and the son of a former slave. He was the first person inducted into the New York City Police Force when it was first organized after the consolidation of the boroughs in 1898. He became the first Black Police Sargent and the first Black Lieutenant of the city and was probably the only Black senior police officer in the country at that time.
It took until the Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt until monopolies were regulated. Like many of the rapacious businessmen of his era, bribery of public officials was so common that he had no problem admitting this to a reporter who was interviewing him. His father Cornelius, one of the great, creative industrialists of America, was not at all of the same mindset or the same corrupt character and saw corporations and the Railroads as having an important role in America with substantial obligations to the society which enabled the economic development and supported the railroads. He described his son as a “blockhead”. William goes down in American history as the arrogant industrialist and capitalist whose wealth was produced by his talent of being born to the right father who built the great empire. At that time the bribery of members of Congress was direct with cash going directly into their pockets, unlike modern times where it is indirect in the form of Campaign contributions.
- Born: September 6, 1936
- Nationality: American
- Profession: Polymath
Lewis D. Eigen is the Senior Research Scientist & Chief Technology Officer at BEA Enterprises Inc. based in Potomac, Maryland, USA. He has worked as Mathematician, Psychologist, Technologist. Software Engineer, Government & Corporate Executive (Public & Private Corporations), Educator, Quotation Compiler & Editor. He is the author of 13 books, over 100 research articles and papers, over 500 multi-media training modules and more than a dozen computer products / systems. In government he has served as the First Associate Director of the U. S. Job Corps, the Director of the National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information, and as a member of the the Johnson Task Force for the War on Poverty, the MacNamara Commission on Military Transition to Civilian Life, and as a Senior Editor and Peer Reviewer for the National Institutes of Health.
